SRC-JBJ S.B. 1270 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1270
By: Bernsen
Criminal Justice
4/17/2001
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Under current Texas law, it is an offense for a person to cause another
person to contact certain bodily fluids and wastes in certain adult and
juvenile correctional facilities, but not in a secure detention or
correctional facility  as defined by Section 51.02, Family Code, operated
by or under contract with a juvenile board.  As proposed, S.B. 1270 amends
provisions regarding such an offense to include a secure detention or
correctional facility as defined by Section 51.02, Family Code, operated by
or under contract with a juvenile board. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 22.11, Penal Code, to provide that a person
commits an offense if the person, while imprisoned or confined in certain
facilities, including a secure detention facility or a secure correctional
facility as defined by Section 51.02, Family Code, operated by or under
contract with a juvenile board, and with intent to harass, alarm, or annoy
another person, causes the other person to contact the blood, seminal
fluid, urine, or feces of the actor of any other person. 

SECTION 2.  Makes application of this Act prospective. 

SECTION 3.  Effective date: September 1, 2001.